How many times do you have to do a thing for it to become a habit? The book ‘Atomic Habits’ talks about ‘habit stacking’ – “One of the best ways to build a new habit is to identify a current habit you already do each day and then...
Did you know that SHA Club Members get each month’s Demonstration Collection in their Club library for free until the next Collection begins. And when that happens they’re offered a discount to purchase them. It’s a great way to learn to paint. Why...
I loved receiving this question from Louise in the UK: What do you do with all the paintings! If you paint something every day for 30 days that’s a lot of art! If you’ve ever wondered the same thing, here’s my reply: Hi Louise, great question! I...
Linda and I were chatting today, about how many months I’d been doing an at-least-12 sketch Demonstration Collection (18!) and thinking up new and fun ways to entice you to join in and get that fabulous ‘I painted that!’ feeling for yourself. Our...
If you’ve ever wanted to the confidence to sketch out and about, here are two tips: 1. Start practicing at home. Draw your own table. Your window view. Your hands. Your favourite coffee mug. 2. Have friends who are happy for you to sketch while...
I know art-making makes me happy (as I type that, I remember the time I did a presentation about ‘making art’ and three of my friends came up to me at the end and told me that everytime I said that it sounded like ‘making out’ 😂😅🤣 –...
